List of cryptocurrencies

This is a list of cryptocurrencies. There were more than 669 cryptocurrencies available for trade in online markets as of 24 August 2015 and more than 740 in total^[1] but only 9 of them had market capitalizations over $10 million.^[2]

Release	Active	Currency	Symbol	Founder	Hash algorithm	Timestamping	Notes
2014	Active	Auroracoin	AUR	Baldur Odinsson (pseudonym)[3]	Scrypt	POW	Created as an alternative to fiat currency in Iceland.
2009	Active	Bitcoin	BTC[4][5]	Satoshi Nakamoto[nt 1]	SHA-256d[6][7]	POW[7][8]	First decentralized ledger currency.
2014	Active	BlackCoin	BC, BLK	Rat4 (pseudonym)	Scrypt	Proof-of-stake (POS)	BlackCoin secures its network through a process called minting.
2014	Inactive	Coinye	KOI, COYE		Scrypt	POW	Used American hip hop artist Kanye West as its mascot, abandoned after trademark lawsuit.
2014[9]	Active	Dash	DASH	Evan Duffield & Kyle Hagan[10]	X11	POW & POS[nt 2]	Adds privacy to transactions through a decentralized coin-mixing system called Darksend.
2015	Active	Decred	DCR		Blake-256	POW & POS	Created by Bitcoin developers.
2013	Active	Dogecoin	DOGE	Jackson Palmer & Billy Markus[11]	Scrypt[12]	POW	Based on an internet meme.
2014	Active	DigitalNote	XDN	XDN-dev team, dNote[13]	CryptoNight[14]	POW	DigitalNote (XDN) is a new private cryptocurrency with an instant untraceable crypto messages and first blockchain banking implementation, use CryptoNote protocol.
2015	Active	Ethereum	ETH	Vitalik Buterin[15]	Dagger Hashimoto[16]	POW	Turing complete smart contracts.
2013[17][18]	Active	Gridcoin	GRC		Scrypt	POW	First cryptocurrency linked to citizen science through the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing[19][20]
2011	Active	Litecoin	LTC	Charles Lee	Scrypt	POW	First cryptocurrency to use Scrypt as a hashing algorithm.
2013	Active	Mastercoin	MSC	J. R. Willett [21]	SHA-256d[22]	N/A	Mastercoin is both digital currency and communications protocol built on top of the existing bitcoin block chain.
2014	Active	MazaCoin	MZC	BTC Oyate Initiative	SHA-256d	POW	The underlying software for MazaCoin is derived from that of another cryptocurrency, ZetaCoin.
2014	Active	Monero	XMR	Monero Core Team[23]	CryptoNight[14]	POW	Monero (XMR) is a new privacy-centric coin using the CryptoNote protocol.
2011	Active	Namecoin	NMC	Vincent Durham[24][25]	SHA-256d	POW	Also acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS.
2013[26][27]	Active	Nxt	NXT	BCNext (pseudonym)[26]	SHA-256d[28]	POS	Nxt is specifically designed as a flexible platform to build applications and financial services around its protocol.
2012[7]	Active	Peercoin	PPC	Sunny King (pseudonym)[29]	SHA-256d[30]	POW & POS	First to use POW and POS functions.
2013[31]	Active	Emercoin	EMC	EvgenijM86	SHA-256	POW & POS	Trusted storage for any small data: acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS, PKI store, SSL infrastructure and other.
2014	Active	PotCoin	POT		Scrypt	POW	Developed to service the legalized cannabis industry
2013	Active	Primecoin	XPM	Sunny King (pseudonym)[29]	1CC/2CC/TWN[32]	POW[32]	Primecoin uses the finding of prime chains composed of Cunningham chains and bi-twin chains for proof-of-work, which can lead to useful byproducts.
2013	Active	Ripple[33][34][35]	XRP[35]	Chris Larsen & Jed McCaleb[36]	ECDSA[37]	"Consensus"	Based on peer to peer debt transfer. The term Ripple can refer to both the digital currency or the payment network.
2014	Active	Titcoin	TIT	Edward Mansfield & Richard Allen[38]	SHA-256d	POW	First cryptocurrency to be nominated for a major adult industry award.[39]
Proposed to be developed as Moneta	Inactive	Zerocoin		Matthew Green, Ian Miers and Christina Garman			Proposed bitcoin extension to add true cryptographic anonymity

Notes

1. It is not known whether the name "Satoshi Nakamoto" is real or a pseudonym, or whether it represents one person or a group.
2. Via Masternodes containing 1000 DRK as "Proof of Service". Through an automated voting mechanism, one Masternode is selected per block and receives 45% of mining rewards.

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16. Dagger Hashimoto
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26. BCNext (pseudonym). "Nxt Announcement Thread". Bitcointalk.org.
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